Words that start with R

Rode is the past tense of ride.

Rodeos are events where cowboys and cowgirls test their skills. The events usually involve horses and other livestock, such as testing the contestant's ability to stay on a bucking horse or cow, and events like roping a cow or other animal while on horseback.

You roll when you lie down and move from your front to your back (or the other way around). If you keep rolling you can travel quite some distance. You roll a ball or something else round when you push or pull it along the ground and it moves by turning over and over without losing contact with the ground.

Rolled oats are oat grains that have first had the hard outer husk removed, then they are flattened by heavy rollers, lightly steamed and toasted.
Rolled oats can be used to bake cookies or cakes, but most often they are cooked on their own to make porridge.

A rollercoaster is a series of tracks that go up and down, and a cart that slides on the tracks. Rollercoasters can be very fast, and sometimes even have full loops in the tracks so you go upside down. Rollercoasters are great fun to ride on.

A rolling pin is a long cylindrical tool, usually made of wood, which usually has a handle on each end to grip onto. Rolling pins are used for flattening out pastry into a smooth sheet the same thickness all over, so it can be used as a pie casing or to cut cookies from.

A roof is the topmost part of a house or building. Rooves are usually sloped and watertight so rain and snow runs off them and doesn't go inside the house.

A room is an enclosed area in a house or building with a specific purpose. A bedroom is for sleeping, a kitchen is for cooking, and a classroom is for learning.

A rooster is a male chicken.

A rope is a very thick, strong piece of string. You use rope for tying big things, like the sails on a yacht, like the rope in the picture. A fun use for rope is a tug 'o war. Rope is usually made from the fibre from coconut shells, or a modern fibre like nylon, twisted together so it is thicker.
If you need to tie something that is too big or heavy for ordinary rope, you either need rope made from strands of metal or use some steel chain.